Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

It's easy to see why many young people don't find military service especially enticing. The US military lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the usual regime propaganda may not be working anymore. But we'll only know the full extent of the "problem" once unemployment starts to go up. 

George Ford Smith

While court economists such as Paul Krugman insist that inflation is government's way of ensuring full employment, in reality, inflation is one of the many ways governments steal from productive people.

Stephen Anderson

As the US economy sours, look for a wave of new bankruptcies. The Fed cannot pull any rabbits out of its monetary hat this time.

Ryan McMaken

In a more reasonable world, people like Cheney, Rice, Bolton, et al., would all be forgotten, shamed, and disgraced for overseeing multiple disastrous wars abroad and the creation of a police state at home. Unfortunately, we don't live in a more reasonable world. 

Michael Matulef

Austrian economics stands apart from the economic mainstream in its deductive approach to economic analysis.

Raushan Gross

The decision to use artificial intelligence–powered robots in the fast food industry depends upon differences in costs and performance between humans and robots. State minimum wage laws are pushing the industry toward robots.

Joakim Book

Progressives have created a new thought crime: cultural appropriation. However, one cannot appropriate something that is not owned by anyone else.

Murray N. Rothbard

Our country is beset by a large number of economic myths that lead us to accept unsound and dangerous government policies.

Ugo Stornaiolo S.

Can there be a bridge between Heideggerian metaphysics and practical political philosophy?

Daniel Lacalle

Most BRICS currencies are weak and getting weaker, and creating a new joint  "BRICS currency" won't solve the problem.  Joining together a bunch of weak currencies does not somehow create a strong currency.